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Cupped Copper Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 02/17/2024 from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Participants will learn to stamp and dap copper disks into earrings of their design. Some may choose to keep their copper bright or oxidize it for a different look. Beads will be added to the center and/or the bottom. This is an active, fun, and loud class.
Delicate Dangle Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 03/02/2024 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use your wrapped loop skills to create graduated delicate dangles that are strung between seed beads on a wire loop to create a beautiful pair of earrings. Add a Swarovski crystal on the top and you are ready to wear.
DIY Earrings through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 01/24/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use Toho seed beads in brick stitch with a rubber ring to make a fun pair of light earrings. In this project, the high contrast thread and the ring are part of the design.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at: www.kirkwood.edu and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants. Instructor: Karen Kubby.
$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
DIY Earrings through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 02/08/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use Toho seed beads in brick stitch with a rubber ring to make a fun pair of light weight earrings. In this project, the high contrast thread and the ring are part of the design.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at: www.kirkwood.edu and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants. Instructor: Karen Kubby.
$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
Double Braided Copper Wire Bracelet
$60.00Date and Time: 10/26/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Take yards of copper wire and learn a fast and fun braiding technique. Make two braids and insert them into cones and add a clasp. A fast and furious class.
Double St. Petersburg Chain Bracelet through Kirkwood
Date and Time: 10/29/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
–$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
This stitch originated in Russia. This class will get you familiar with the double version of this stitch with lots of repetition to create a bracelet. This stitch is great for making leaf motifs, too. You will use Toho seed beads and pressed glass from the Czech Republic.
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
www.kirkwood.edu and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
Double Terminated Point Pendant
$72.00Date and Time: 10/20/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Take your wirework skills to the next level by creating a woven cage and bail onto a double terminated or top-drilled stone. Various widths of copper wire will be used to create depth and texture.
Dragonfly Pendant
$48.00Date and Time: 07/13/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop.
Use wire, Czech feather beads, and Swarovski crystals to create your own dragonfly. Use it as a pendant, make another for earrings, or hang it in a sunny window.
Effects on Glass
$120.00Date and Time: 04/13/2024 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or equivalent skills.
This is a fun next steps glass class. Use enamel powders, frit, and baking soda on top of glass beads to create additional effects.
Embellished Crystal Beaded Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 11/12/2022 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Tubular peyote stitch.
Bezel a Swarovski Rivoli with Toho seed beads. Learn new and innovative embellishment techniques using Swarovski pearls. Even the back of these earrings looks great.
End of Day Lampwork Headpins
$120.00Date and Time: 10/04/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any lampworking experience.
Take glass scraps from your lampworking session and turn them into a glass headpin. Techniques for adding glass, ensuring the top of the headpin is well rounded, and pulling the glass will be emphasized.
Eye Glass Holder
$60.00Date and Time: 06/12/2021 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to use flexwire and crimp beads by making an eyeglass holder. Design your piece with Toho seed beads and Czech pressed glass pieces. You’ll be able to make bracelets and necklaces with your new skill.
Filled Cubed Right Angle Weave Chain
$72.00Date and Time: 12/04/2021 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Cubed right angle weave. Call for a private tutorial.
Create CRAW triangles with Toho 11/0 seed beads and “fill” each cube with a contrasting color. This is a quick and easy method of adding depth to your beadwork. Learn to make connections that are flexible to make a chain of triangles.
Flame II: Next Steps in Making Glass Beads
$120.00Date and Time: 06/03/2023 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or flamework studio experience must be demonstrated.
Continue to explore the art of lampworking with a torch and glass rods. In this class, you will learn more techniques for manipulating color, making the perfect dot, and shaping with a goal of making a variety of more complicated shapes, including a hollow bead–see the great fish beads in the photo to the left. Your beads will be annealed overnight at the store.
You must be at least 15 years old to register for this class.
Flat Right Angle Weave (RAW) Bracelet
$58.00Date and Time: 08/20/2016 from -
Capacity:
Instructor:
Prerequisites:
Get in the groove of doing flat right angle weave by making a wide cuff bracelet.This is a stitch that takes some repetition in order to get your rhythm.We’ll throw in a bit of color grading to boot.Add a clasp and you are ready to wear your new RAW bracelet.
*This class serves as a prerequisite for the RAW Rubber Gasket necklace on August 27.*
*NOTE:Take both Flat Right Angle Weave Bracelet and RAW Rubber Gasket Necklace for double reward points.*
Cubed Right Angle Weave Pendant: An Introduction to CRAW
$58.00Date and Time: 07/02/2016 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary
Cubed Right Angle Weave (CRAW) is a fun and fascinating stitch. It is hard to learn from video or written instructions. In this class you will learn CRAW with larger beads to create a pendant. Move on to embellishing the piece by “stitchin’ in the ditch”.
Note: This class serves as the prerequisite for the CRAW Fan Earrings class on July 16.